shannon gerard
My visual art practice operates across several platforms and media. I write, draw and publish in a variety of forms including on-line comics, periodical illustrations, trade-paperback graphic fiction, and self-published artist’s books and multiples. Thematically I am very curious about issues such as magic, hope, faith and human frailty. I also produce large-scale installations that incorporate stop-motion animations and digital print, and spend at least 50% of my waking life crocheting soft sculptures.
A lot of my work employs play as a research strategy. Areas of interest include the mindset of the collector, the sculptural and performative possibilities suggested by books and book-objects, the conceptual space that books occupy beyond the presentation of texts and images, and how the social position of works (in other words, where we tend to encounter particular modes of art) mediates how we become engaged as readers/viewers.
I am also really getting into marionettes.
I love to work with small gallery shops and retailers! If you are interested in carrying my crochet work or books, please contact me via email (shannon AT shannongerard DOT org, or click the envelope icon below) for wholesale prices and policies.
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- plants you can't kill
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- PLUSHTACHE
- anatomical hearts
- crocheted coral reef
- SWORD of MY MOUTH
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There’s a short little piece up on Open Book Toronto about why I make “comics.”
Thanks to Rachel Anne Farquharson for this great review of PINK PEARL at Art Barrage!
Well, I’m not a stud, but I was so happy to take part in this interview last year on Robin McConnell’s Vancouver-based radio program INKSTUDS. I’m moving into high gear now planning my second trip to the Left Edge to continue the research described at the end of this conversation. If you stick with this podcast past the sleepy beginning, you might like to hear us blab about Detroit, Sword of My Mouth, Unspent Love, autobiography, hyperbolic math nerding, and Blood and Thunder.
Click the green heading above to listen to our podcast.
The songs sprinkled in to the conversation relate in some circuitous ways to the content of the interview. The most interesting one is probably Making Believe by Ella Fitzgerald and The Ink Spots (ink spots, ink studs, samesamebutdifferent) because that was the only 45 my grandmother had to play in 1944 when my father was an infant. I like to think of it as the repeating soundtrack to her isolation as a young mum— one song to tell her story and drive her crazy.
Many thanks to Vanessa Nicholas for such a nice mention in her piece about TCAF for Canadian Art.
